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Friday September 12, 2003

HowTo: Check for JUnit in $ANT_HOME/lib

One of the most common problems with my sample apps is that developers (when compiling from source) forget to put junit.jar in their $ANT_HOME/lib directory. I put it in the README, but I guess no one reads that sucker. So now I have a new strategy - stop the build if it's not there: 

<!-- Check that junit.jar is in $ANT_HOME/lib -->
<available classname="junit.framework.TestCase" 
    property="junit.present"/>
<fail unless="junit.present" 
    message="Please copy junit.jar into ${env.ANT_HOME}/lib"/>

Posted in Java at Sep 12 2003, 01:25:18 PM MDT 1 Comment
Comments:

Hear Hear! I love these kinds of messages in build.xml files. I have done that with mine to help out colleagues that are new to my projects as well as helps your brain when you come back to a project on a new machine and it "just doesn't work". A few extra minutes writing the tests in the build.xml and try them out will pay huge dividends in the long run.

Posted by Mark Mascolino on September 19, 2003 at 04:10 PM MDT #

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